U p g r a d i n g

Adding a removable-media drive

The 5.25" drive bay can contain any half height 5.25" device. A range of removable-media drives are available for this bay.

Configuring the drive

Drives purchased from an authorized supplier should arrive pre- configured and ready for installation. The following table provides some general advice. See the documentation provided with the upgrade kit for more information.

Drive type

Configuration instructions

 

 

5.25" floppy disk

The only configuration required is to set the

or FTD Travan tape

drive select jumpers at the rear of the drive.

drive

The jumpers should be pre-configured to

 

either Soft Select or Drive Select 1 (DS1).

ATA-PI CD-ROM

The ATA-PI CD-ROM drive should be

drive

configured as the master drive for connection

 

to the motherboard’s ATA-PI CD-ROM

 

interface.

SCSI QIC tape or

Every SCSI drive must be assigned an identity

DDS-2 tape drive

on the SCSI bus, known as its SCSI ID. All

 

removable-media SCSI drives should be pre-

 

configured with SCSI ID 2, and fitted with

 

termination resistors.

Installing the drive

To install a removable-media drive:

1.Turn off the system unit and unplug all power cords.

2.Take suitable anti-static precautions and remove the system unit cover.

If you are unfamiliar with the recommended anti-static precautions or the process of removing the system unit cover, refer to Appendix A, “Inside the System Unit”.

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